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Create your own mental frameworks.

For example (personal mnemonic to cover my own blind spots) when designing my feature, consider:

* Flighting, especially protocol changes, will this change cause clients to be unable to talk to services?

* Risk: if this change breaks its service, what else breaks? What is the recovery path?

* Security: does this unintentionally relax or circumvent existing security boundaries? How much damage can an abuse of any code that writes/modifies do?

This is not a complete list on purpose. I use it to shore up the things I tend to forget to think about.




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